The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-08
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

There were three cases of yellow fever and
one death at Tampa, Fla. yesterday.
The Kansas City Cable railway Company has
voluntarily made a rule allowing mail-carriers
free passage the road while on duty.
Gen. F. c. Latrobe was yesterday formally
inaugurated Mayor of Baltimore. This is the
fifth time General Latrobe has been elected
Mayor of Baltimore.
Five new cases of measles developed yester-
day morning among the passengers of the
Britannia, Hoffman island. New York har..
Dor, and they were removed to SWlnburne
island.
At GAINESVILLE O., yesterday. William Sparks,
a bartender, crushed Edward ODonnell's skull
with base ball bat. The quarrel arose over q
bill for liquor. ODonnell will die. Sparks is
under arrest
John Nielutsch, of New York city. an active
Republican and ex- member of the State Legisla
ture. committed suicide yesterday. He har-
bored an hallucination that Anarchists were pur
surfing him to kill him.
At Ravenna. o., yesterday, the trial of James
Robinson. one of s'Blinky" Morgan's pals, was
set for Dec. /. Morean's attorneys have been
given till the close of the present week to file af
fdavits in support of a motion for new trial.
By explosion of a stationary boiler in a
saw-mill, near Knoxville. Ga, Yesterday, Forest
j. Matthews, the owner. and two negro helpers
were killed Instantly, and another negro fatally
scalded. The boiler had been used twenty years.
Five men were smoking in a frame building at
Bridgeport, w. Va. Sunday evening. when
spark dropped into keg Of powder and an ex-
-
killing two of the men. F. Richter and julius
Buckhotz, and wounding the other three. per-
haps fatally.
The motion for stay of execution in the Chicago
Doodle case came up for trial yesterday morning
before Judge Jameson and was overruled. The
defendants were each sentenced to two years
Imprisonment The defense asked permission to
file bill of exceptions, and was given twenty
days to do so.
Gus Lambert of Quebec, Canada, aged
twenty-five. suddenly became insane yesterday.
and before he overpowered had cut the
throats of his wife, child and himself badly
that it is doubtful if any of them will recover.
In endeavorIne to wrest the from him,
the wife's hands were horribly mutilated
A Montreal telegram says that while some Of
Mrs. Langtry's company were being entertained
at supper, Saturday evening, ny some young
bloods of that city, Misunderstanding occurred,
Barrymore received kick which shattered one
of the bones of his ankle and will temporarily
lay him up.
Mrs Anna Cross aged forty-five years. living
in the of 800 St. John street. Philadelphia.
was shot, and, it is thought, fatally injured
yesterday morning. By her lover Samuel Rois-
terick. aged thirty years. The couple quar-
five shots at the woman, three of which are said
TO have taken effect The murderer was capt
ured.
A civil suit for $4,000 damages was be-
gun in tae United States Circuit Cenrt
at Kansas City yesterday. against Ed
ward Corrigan, the turfman. by Il.
J. Mosier, the Times reporter he assaulted
at Waldo Park. last Friday. Mosier's attorney
announces that he will lay the facts before the
grand jury at Independence, with view to
having an Indictment for felonious assault made
out.